Washing-machine



(No Model.)

N. MASSIOOTTE.

WASHING MACHINE.

No. 340,590. Patented Apr. 27, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NARCISSE MASSICOTTE, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,590, dated April 2'7, 1886.

Application filed November 6, 1885. Serial No. 182,060. (No model.)

1' 0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, N ARCISSE MAssIooTTn, a citizen of Canada, and a resident of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure l is a side view of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view in vertical central section of the device on the plane denoted by line at m of Fig. 2.

My invention relates to the class of washing-1nachines that consists of a movable box or the like part, within which the articles to be washed are tumbled about and thrown into contact with the opposite surfaces of the box by the rotary or swinging movements of the latter; and my invention consists in the combination of a supporting-frame and rotary box with a device for holding it against rotation, and in details of the construction of the parts, as more particularly hereinafter described and claimed. I

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes astand or support; I), a rotary box with journals 1) b projecting from the center of the opposite sides in line with each other, and resting in bearings between the uprights a of the frame. On one of these journals, as b is attached a crank, c, by means of which the box can be rotated.

In one side of the box is an opening. (I, in which is fitted a removable cover, (1, held in place by means of any ordinary fastening device, as by the turn-buttons e.

The inside surface of the walls of the box are provided with ridges or bars f, with their inner surfaces preferably rounded, as shown in section in Fig. 3, and these bars or ridges are arranged in any desirable variety as to position and direction along the-surface to which they are secured, in order to break up the otherwise smooth surface of the box into a number of irregular sections.

The sides of the box that are farthest from the axis are faced by bars set a short distance away from the sides, so as to leave a space, f, behind the bars, between them and the inner surface of the box.

In order to use my device for washing clothes, a quantity of water, with soap or the like cleansing material, is put into the box with a number of articles to be washed, and the cover fastened 011. By means of the crank the box is then rotated, and the articles are thrown violently from side to side against-and across the ridges on the sides, a certain part of the water flowing around the articles in the space or channelf, and aiding greatly in the process of cleaning. After turning the box a sufficient number of times, which is determined by the number of articles and their condition when put into the box the latter is stopped with the cover on its upper side. The clothes or other articles may then be removed and wrung out in the usual manner.

In order to aid the wringing out of the articles and to hold the box in a suitable position for filling or removing the clothes, the clamp g is secured to the frame by means of the upright standards 9, while the hookshaped arms 9 overlie the edge of the box and take into sockets in its surface.

A wringing-machine may be secured to the cross-bar g on this clamp, and the clothes as they are taken from the box may be passed through the wringer.

By means of this machine I make a considerable saving of time and strength in washing clothes.

7 I claim as my improvement- In combination, the frame a, the rotary box I), with crank-handle c and clamp device 9, with means for removably attaching it to the frame and to the box, all substantially as described.

his NARCISSE BIASSICOTTE.

mark.

Witnesses:

CHAS. L. BURDETT, H. R. WILLIAMs. 

